The fundamental basis of conservatism is that freedom means having power over other people. Therefore they believe that any attempt to extend freedom to others means taking it away from them.
Aidinthel
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Eradication =/= extermination. The latter means zero left alive on the whole planet. The fact that the US stopped at clearing screworms from only North America while leaving them alive in the south (and Cuba) always left the possibility of this happening.
This is really bad. The US should have put in the funds to exterminate this thing while we still had a functioning government. I dislike the article's focus on prices as the main consequence here. Screwworms are fucking horrifying, and they can affect humans, too.
Sorry, Harvard is a stronghold of the left now? What do words even mean?
Imagine if the US invaded Mexico and three years later Mexican drones were threatening Washington, DC. I'd call it a joke but it isn't really funny with a real war.
Watch Trump give lucrative disaster response contracts to private companies owned by his biggest donors. Maybe Musk will dump a bunch of cybertrucks on the government somehow.
Wait, has Ben & Jerry's always been this based?
Yeah, that's all true, but on the other hand there'll probably be a lot of money to be made for a while there, so who's to say whether it's bad or good overall.
I'm not sure where you're numbers are coming from, but the inflation calculator I found through Google says that $59 in 1992 is more like $135 today. That's still a significant increase of course, although I wonder how much publishers benefit from not needing as much physical distribution. After the initial investment selling digital keys on a third-party storefront like Steam should be pure profit, no?
Socialism is when the government helps people with a different skin color than me.
Except for the social part to an extent, none of that is inherently true. Trans people obviously complicate a lot of those assumptions, but also cis people can have their personal issues that diverge from the commonassumptions. I would guess the idea is to encourage treating people as unique individuals rather than as stereotypes.